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NB Students Showcase Inventions At STEM Fair

February 22, 2012

NEW BREMEN — Local seventh-grade students recently showcased their science, technology, engineering and math talents at this year’s STEM fair.
Feb. 16 marked the fourth annual STEM fair at New Bremen Middle School, said Tracy Steinke, seventh and eighth-grade science teacher.
“They had to invent either something brand new or make an improvement on something that already exists,” she said. “And then they needed to follow through the engineering design process — planning it out, drawing their blueprints, finding their materials, building it, making modifications.”

Area Agency On Aging 3 Receives Superior Rating

February 22, 2012

MINSTER — Ohio’s 12 Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs) — which includes the Area Agency on Aging 3 based in Allen County — recently received a better than 99 percent approval rating for 2011.
In late January, the Ohio Department of Aging released data from its consumer satisfaction survey based on participation in programs offered by all AAAs. The Area Agency on Aging 3 — which serves Allen, Auglaize, Hancock, Hardin, Mercer, Putnam and Van Wert counties — scored 99.4 percent on this survey, according to a news release.

Shrine Admin Speaks To Minster Service Club

February 22, 2012

MINSTER — On Feb. 15, Don Rosenbeck talked to the Minster Service Club about the Maria Stein Shrine of the Holy Relics.
Rosenbeck has been the Shrine’s administrator for the past 18 months.
“Basically what we are is we’re a place of prayer,” said Rosenbeck. “We’re not like a normal business at all and we’re very much a connection to the saints.”
• History: The history of the shrine very much relates to the history of Ohio.

GLHS Launches New Mobile Website, YouTube Channel

February 22, 2012

ST. MARYS — Area residents are now able to access Grand Lake Health Systems’ online content through its newly-launched mobile website.
Because of the prevalence of internet usage through smartphones and other mobile devices, the mobile website allows users to access GLHS’s web content with greater ease, said Martin Dodrill, director of planning and marketing at GLHS.

Minster library holds annual book sale, Valentine’s craft

February 15, 2012

MINSTER — Patrons were lined up outside last Monday, door-busting an annual book sale at the Francis J. Stallo Memorial Library in Minster.
The book sale, which ran from Feb. 6 to 11 this year, has been held the first week of February for at least the past 15 years, said Beck Prenger, branch manager at the library.
“There are books that are donated and also books that have been withdrawn from our shelves,” Prenger said. “We have a certain procedure that we use to take books off the shelf, and then when we take them off the shelf, we put them in the book sale.”

 

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